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Mr. Sullivan's (my alias) goals for his students: appreciate the writing process and become a critical thinker.
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Nota Bene: Educational Links National Council of Teachers of English Newspapers Online: Journals and Magazines: Book Reviews: Columnists: Ezines: Diversions: Satire Wire
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Meaningful Ways to Incorporate Technology in theClassroom June 2011: After
careful review of student evaluations regarding the use of technology in our
classroom, I have come up with a new idea to create one blog for all of my
classes. I am looking forward to this new way of thinking and creating. It
will be a new mindset, and I always like adapting and trying new mindsets!
Check it out: http://digitalcrowsnest.wordpress.com/ June 2010: The class blog and use of the blog was the clear message in the annual student evaluations this year; also maintaining curriculum on old fashion web pages ranked highly. June 5, 2009: Student evaluations strongly suggest dropping Dreamweaver and continue with Wikis. January 5, 2009: My first Blog; now hosting extra credit carrots. November 20, 2008: CAIS Workshop on digital poems and stories Academic year 2008-09: Click on my digital English Sandbox: an attempt to have students find great web sites to help them with style rules. Parents, if you wish, follow the prompts to join our private space. Pandemics Winter & Spring (2007-08) senior elective with a PBL approach. October 26, 2007: College Board National Forum: Classroom Roundtable Session October 20, 2007: Click here for a web page delineating study skills for our Voc. Quizzes. June 20, 2007: Click here for my CAIS workshop on digital stories and poems in K-12 classrooms. April 2, 2007: Project Home, English III. See my page for this project. December 1, 2006: Click here for new interdisciplinary digital fun. November 11, 2006: Click here for a page that I made for the College Board Forum Classroom Roundtable Session. June 28, 2006: Click here for a page that I made for the CAIS Technology Workshop about making digital stories and poems in the classroom. June 22, 2005: Click here for a page that I made for a CAIS Workshop for making digital stories and poems in the classroom. June 1, 2005: (future link) Click here for a page that catalogues student evaluations about technology in an English class. July 1, 2004: Click here for a page that I made for a CAIS Workshop for making your own digital story. April 28-May 1 2004: Learning and the Brain Conference in Cambridge, MA. Click here for Kim's, Greg's and Bill's notes. February 26, 2004: Commission on Technology CAIS conference; Poetry Appreciation. Here's a new web page to explain why and how we began using Audio Recorder to appreciate poetry in English III. February 22, 2004: Here's a new page to catalogue the potential uses of technology for students and teachers. January 12, 2004: Check out the new web page for the Writer's Handbook. Is it good to have a copy on line? September 2003: I want to hand my students a print out of their grade every 2.5 weeks this term. I have tried to make my expectations as transparent as possible. Click here and check it out. November 2002: I hope to integrate more of what I learned at the recent Brain Based Learning conferences that I attended in Boston and more recently through CAIS. I think that our web pages will be useful tools to implement several strategies that I learned. I-Movies:Some students recently volunteered to have their poetry memorization renders filmed on an I-Movie camera. I hope to have it as a way to celebrate student achievement in this case. Besides teaching time management skills, this assignment helps students understand a poem extremely well. In the spring term, students research and selected their own poem. I will soon edit these I-Movies and post them on the English III Web page. ................................... The Song Maketh the I-Movie. With this in mind, we are having an extra credit contest. The student who proposes the song for our upcoming I-Movie of this year's field trip to Amherst will receive an extra credit boost on his/her lowest vocabulary quiz grade. Click here to see the current submissions. Once we have the song, then we can cut the movie. .................................. I am currently enjoying the I-Movie software. It is a powerful tool. I spent some time over spring break reading an I-Movie book that helped complement the advice from one of Andrew's Technology sessions last February. .................................. My senior class is currently researching their future schools to find out academic and extracurricular culture for upcoming college experience. They are researching such items as the preferred style guide to papers, in which English class they might enroll, how many papers or exams are required, the format for exams. We will post these conclusions on the class web page and seniors can check them next year similar to how one might look at a time capsule. |
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Current and Past Links to Student Work Academic year 2010-2011:Click on my digital sandbox page which hosts links to all of my current class blogs (where students author the blogs) and class wikis. Academic year 2009-2010:Click on my digital sandbox page which hosts links to all of my current wikis and blogs. Academic year 2008-09: Click here to find student web pages. May 11, 2007: Click here for our work-in-progress regarding our American Cultural History digital textbook. We're scanning documents of interest that we will later donate to local library web page. May 7, 2007: Click here for our field trip up historic and scenic Mt. Skinner. March 2005: Click here to see some Digital Stories. My students have created their own stories and have composed I-Movie productions that involve complementing images and music. You will have to search around a little on each page to find each digital story. October/November 2004: Click here to see some Digital Poems. My students have interpreted poems of Whitman and Dickinson by using Mac's I-Movie software. June 2004: Click here to view a movie; it was a student project to rescript, cast, act, film and edit what the group of students believed to be the most dramatic scene of Miller's Death of a Salesman. January 21, 2004: I have made a new web page to explain why and how I use technology in my English Curriculum; I also explain how I use different software applications. December 15 2003: My English III class has added audio to their web pages. Using Audio Recorder software, students have recorded their favorite passages of Whitman and Dickinson; they have posted these passages on their web pages with a little text to explain why each passage is their favorite. Click here and check it out. January 22, 2003: May and I have mobilized our Sophomore Leadership class to create individual web pages. We no longer require students to bring a notebook; we now ask them to use their laptop everyday in class. Click here to see these electronic portfolios. January 2003: I have begun a web journal in order to deliberately reflect on the use of technology in my curriculum: what works well and what needs improvement? November 2002: May, Rachel and I are trying to get our Sophomore Leadership class to create individual web pages. Click here to see the results. October 2002:English III Teachers have organized our trip to Lenox, Massachusetts to see a dramatic performance of The Scarlet Letter. Click on the Field Trip Link on the English III Web Page. October 2002: My English III class has begun an in-depth technology project. We're all learning to make web pages, and I have begun a sample page of a fictitious student, Johnny Poe. click on his name to see a sample English III page. September, 2002: May, Rachel and I are launching a new web page for our Sophomore Leadership B1 & B2 sections. Click here. September, 2002: I am wondering if we could have students create place to list book reviews of their favorite pleasure reading. SA Book Review September, 2002: English III Teachers are planning a field trip to Lenox, Massachusetts to see a dramatic performance of The Scarlet Letter. Details will follow soon. April, 2002: English III Field Trip scheduled for May 2, 2002. Mr. Sullivan's Period 2 and Period 7 classes will meet outside of Brewster at 8am. We will return approximately 2:30pm. Students will not attend their seventh period classes but will be on time to their afternoon commitments. Do you want to see last year's field trip I-Movie? Click on "Genius Loci; Poet's village". ................................... Winter, 2002: During the long days of winter while we were reading Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two Cities, I had my students make character web pages. Andrew passed the idea down through the English folder and I had my students help create the guidelines and criteria for a good web page before we began. Thus, when I evaluated these pages, I used the criteria that we had established together. Click here for our Dickens'web page and then click on the class project of character web page. Be sure, too, to scroll down and look at the interactive map of London's 19th century population. ................................... Fall, 2002: Take a look at our literacy memoirs. We put them all on a web page and made them anonymous because of the memoirs personal nature. Notice how many relate accounts of loving to read at a young age yet school began to creep into their reading interests. We used this project as our first writing assignment and it complement our summer reading book, Tobias Woolf's This Boy's Life. ................................... |
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Professional Development I am a member of the CAIS Professional Development Commission. I am one of the planners for the upcoming conference on 21st century skills on October 21, 2010. Check out our wiki. December 3, 2009: New conference schedule, descriptions of presentations, and flyer for the January 21, 2009 21st Century CAIS conference. October 20, 2009: I co-presented this keynote of the October conference with Andrew Watt, Chairperson of the CAIS Commission. The Writing Center:Writing Center Homepage. Inspirational Movies that we used in the Writing Center. October 2004: Need help working on a paper? Click here for our new schedule. ......................................... |
The above motto, "Veritas odit moras," is a line from Seneca's translation of Sophocles' Oedipus. It means "Truth hates delay."